Outcome of the Third Physical Meeting:
WSIS+10 MPP Timeline and Way Forward

The third physical meeting of the
Multistakeholder Preparatory Platform
(MPP-WSIS+10) (www.wsis.org/review/mpp)
was held on 17 and 18 February 2014, in the
ITU Headquarters, as part of the fourth
phase of the six phase WSIS+10 High-Level
Event Open Consultation process. The purpose
of this meeting was to conduct the first
reading of the remaining proposals,
proposals pending the 1st reading since the
MPP meeting in December, for the first
drafts of the WSIS+10 Statement on the
Implementation on WSIS Outcomes & the
WSIS+10 Vision for WSIS Beyond 2015.

More than 140 participants from 70 Countries
participated in total in the meeting, in a
remote and physical manner. All WSIS
Stakeholders, that is, governments, private
sector, civil society and international
organizations took active part in the
meeting.

The meeting conducted the first reading of
the remaining proposals, proposals pending
since the MPP meeting in December, for the
first drafts including compilations
reflecting the comments received by WSIS
Stakeholders from 19th December 2013 to 24th
January 2014. All the detailed submissions
are available
here
for consideration.

First Readings of all Action lines: WSIS+10 Vision for WSIS beyond
2015.

Title

Document Number

C1. The role of public governance authorities and all stakeholders in the promotion of ICTs for development

The Secretary-General of the ITU, Dr.
Hamadoun Touré, informed all the
participants through his opening remarks
that it is proposed to hold the
WSIS+10 High-level Event on
10 to 13 June 2014
at the ITU Headquarters in Geneva, he also
added that the Fourth Physical Meeting of
the WSIS+10 MPP will be held on
14 to 17
April 2014 at the ITU Headquarters, Geneva
and the Fifth Physical Meeting of the
WSIS+10 MPP will be held from
28 to 31 May
2014 in Egypt (venue to be confirmed).

The meeting noted the following deadlines,
dates and agreed for the way forward:

WSIS+10 Statement (Chapters A, B and C):

Vice Chair's (Egypt) - draft proposal:

Published online on 7 March 2014

Deadline for receiving comments: 14 March

Deadline for publishing compilation of comments: 21 March

First Readings of all Action lines
and the zero drafts of Chapters A, B
and E of Vision:

Open Consultation Process

Please note that based on several
requests from WSIS Stakeholders the
fourth physical meeting of the WSIS+10
High-Level Event has been shortened to 4
days. Consequently the final dates of
the forth physical meeting are
14-17
April 2014 and the working hours of the
meeting have been extended in order to
ensure sufficient time for accomplishing
the tasks foreseen for this meeting.
Proposed working hours are as follows
9:00-13:00 / 14:30-18:00 / 19:00-21:00.
Please note that this meeting will be
held in the ITU Headquarters, Geneva